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The performing arts in Detroit include orchestra, live music, and theater, with more than a dozen performing arts venues. [1] The stages and old time film palaces are generally located along Woodward Avenue, the city's central thoroughfare, in the Downtown, Midtown, and New Center areas.
Outside Metro Detroit: Croswell Opera House, Adrian (oldest theater in Michigan) Calumet Theatre, Calumet; Grand Rapids Civic Theatre, Grand Rapids; Grant Fine Arts Center; Howard Performing Arts Center, Berrien Springs; Ironwood Theatre; Maltz Opera House, Alpena [1] Midland Center for the Arts; Tecumseh Center for the Arts, Tecumseh
Lydia R. Diamond (born April 14, 1969, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American playwright and professor.Among her most popular plays are The Bluest Eye (2007), an adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel; Stick Fly (2008); Harriet Jacobs (2011); and Smart People (2016).
The founders created the theatre company after noticing that the city lacked an institution that was home to professional theatre with both local and national artists. [2] The DPT began producing in 2015 out of the Max M. Fisher Music Center. In 2016, it produced Detroit ’67, a play written by playwright and actress Dominique Morisseau. [2] [3]
Tickets are $47, or $40 for anyone who could use a discount, "no questions asked," the theater group says. For tickets and more info, visit www.detroitpublictheatre.org or call 313-974-7918.
Detroit Public Theatre. 3960 Third Ave., Detroit. detroitpublictheatre.org. $40, $47. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Detroit Public Theatre tackles Lynn Nottage's ...
It survived the race riots of 1967 and has been over the nearly 60 years of its existence often the only fully professional non-profit theatre in Detroit. The theatre averages about 60,000 admissions each year. Among the world premieres to open at Detroit Rep are Jacob M. Appel's Arborophilia in 2006 and Causa Mortis in 2009.
DETROIT (AP) — A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit's ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a century ago was dismantled into ...